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Maharashtra govt yet to decide on Enron probe

Maharashtra Energy Minister Padamsinh Patil said on Thursday that the Democratic Front government was yet to take a decision on the issue of judicial probe into Dabhol Power Company's power purchase agreement with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board.

"The state government has not yet taken a decision on institution of a judicial probe into power purchase agreement between DPC and MSEB. The House will be informed as soon as the decision is taken," Patil told the legislative council.

The BJP had alleged that DF government was indulging in an 'eye wash' on the judicial probe into the Enron PPA as the energy minister, who had stated on the floor of the house on July 17 that an 'official' announcement on the inquiry would be made 'within a week', had not done so even after ten days.

Replying to the point of propriety raised by Prakash Jawdekar of BJP, Patil had said that he would be making his statement on the proposed probe.

The energy minister had made it clear on July 17 that the announcement of a judicial probe into the Enron PPA made by the state Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh earlier this month was not an official announcement of the government but a decision taken by the coordination committee of ruling DF.

Deshmukh had then stated that terms of reference of the proposed judicial probe would be announced within a month.

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